Mr. GOLDSMITH - However, your testimony is that you spoke to only six people as an estimate who indicated that Oswald was a CIA agent -- and when I say six people, I mean six CIA people, is that correct? In the mid-1970s, the band employed a ten-piece orchestra to back them up. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Have you received a copy of the Committee's rules? The home of Joe Bergin, Sr. and his wife seemed to have been a target for persecution, perhaps because Mrs. Bergin was strongly pro-Kennedy and actively worked for his election in 1960. Enclosed is a copy of the response from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director of the Select Committee on Assassinations. She confided this information to Mrs. Bergin and told her that she had a copy of the First Ladys dress, pink in color with the black velvet collar. [5] Examination of city directories and phone books in the Dallas Public Library shows that the book depository and the publishing companies did not have the 411 Elm Street address until 1963. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I understand. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. In the new 2017 November release of JFK documents, he was interviewed in executive session under oath by the House Select Committee On Assassinations on March 22,1978. suspicious that many of the other things that happened may have had as its source the CIA. When I interviewed him, he was living alone with his three cats, depending for his income on the charity of his father and disability checks. Mr. GOLDSMITH - During what years did you work for the CIA? Mr. WILCOTT - I don't really have anything and maybe I would just like to say I think it is time we got this thing cleared up; and I think for the good of the country and for good of the people I think it is really time that all of the facts were brought out and the people really get the facts. The memo said that Oswalds FBI informant number was S172 and that his CIA number was 110669. 66-67. Why would men who had just shown their FBI identification badges suspect that new employees were concealing the fact that they too were connected to an intelligence agency? Considering the noise of gun blasts and the uproar going on outside, it is odd that Oswald continued to be unconcerned. Mr. GOLDSMITH - What is that opinion? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. I apologize." Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, he was. Let us say, for instance, that there was a certain project going on, and the project was one that became known that this project was being carried out -- and we call it "flaps," -- and the Case Officer in charge might get word that somebody from headquarters was coming to review the files to investigate the flap. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Who were your friends that you discussed this with? What, on recollection, strikes me as possibly significant is that all three seemed to be exceedingly calm and relaxed, compared to the pandemonium which existed right outside their front door. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Mr. Wilcott, did I ask you to prepare a list of CIA Case Officers working at XXXXXXXXX Station in 1963? I talked to reporters from various papers, and I talked to people in other forms of meetings, and to me it is not surprising at all. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Did you bring your allegation to the attention of the Warren Commission? William Weston examines the curious letters of Elzie Glaze and considers potential connections between the CIA and the Texas School Book Depository. Mr. GOLDSMITH - And will you tell the Committee what that relationship was? Fritz was on the sixth floor examining the scene when Truly told him of this. Mr. WILCOTT - I don't confirm any of them except with the community renewal program as coming from there and I am. Something went wrong. We had accountings, or we had audits about every two years, and then then files that I kept the requests for advances, the details of the accountings that were done usually on a monthly basis by the XXXXX Station Branches, would be destroyed and then they would be -- and, in fact, I helped destroy them. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Mr. WILCOTT - No. Please publish modules in offcanvas position. Mr. WILCOTT - At least -- there was at least six or seven people, specifically, who said that they either knew or believed Oswald to be an agent of the CIA. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How long were these records maintained? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Is the answer to that "yes"? Every station was divided up -- at least every class station was divided up into areas, where we would have a China, branch, Korea branch and XXXXXXXX branch and SR branch and SR satellite. Mr. DODD - In 1957? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir, I did. [12] Wilcotts 3/22/78 HSCA deposition, pp. Mr. WILCOTT - I was able to but I never did. Mr. CORNWELL - What routinely was done with such note pads? His tires were slashed and sugar was poured into his gas tank. Mr. GOLDSMITH - So, it is your testimony that, once you left the XXXXXXXX station, people, both at headquarters, in Langley, and at the Miami Station, made references to Oswald being an agent, is that correct? Mr. GOLDSMITH - Are you saying, then, that the cash disbursement files as a matter of routine would be periodically destoryed? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir; it was a cryptonym that I was familiar with, that it must have been at least two or three occasions that I had remembered it and it did ring a bell, yes. Mr. DODD - And your dissatisfaction with the Agency and with the course of American government preceded the actual assassination of President Kennedy? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And when you testified earlier that you learned Oswald's cryptonym, by that do you mean that you learned both Oswald's personal cryptonym and his project cryptonym, or was it one of the two? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. He learned this after the fact through various sources within the Agency, who all recognized what had happened after the assassination and the association of Oswalds name with the crime. On October 5, 1986, Elsie Wilcott died of cancer. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, sir. Missing evidence could be attributed to the systematic destruction of anything contrary to the official version. phone, and hang up, and I would get notes written in snow or my windshield and I had slips of paper left under my, windshield and this sort of thing. The largest typical box for books measured 12 x 14 x 18 inches, was made out of cardboard, and when filled with books weighed 55 pounds. [2] As we shall see, there is evidence that Oswald worked with another CIA agent in Dallas. Mr. WILCOTT - I worked from the years, May, of 1957 to, April, of 1966. I have entered other webs, but this one is different because the spider leaves the web and stalks its preysometimes for many years. Did you write it down or do anything? Mr. WILCOTT - Yes, I did. Mr. WILCOTT - We had -- in Utica there was a group called the Vietnam Educational Council, which was informed people, formed to inform people as to what was going on in Vietnam, and we didn't feel that there was coverage enough in the media as to what was going on, and the purpose of the Vietnam Educational Council was to inform people as to what was going on. Mr. WILCOTT - Most of the people were involved in the civil rights movement or in the antiwar movement in 1968. According to former CIA finance officer James B. Wilcotts testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Lee Harvey Oswald was a regular employee, receiving a full-time salary for agent work, for doing CIA operational work.[1] A memorandum by Warren Commission general counsel J. Lee Rankin said that Oswalds CIA payroll number was 110669. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. Finally, under threats and intense harassment from Dallas Police, I was forced to flee Dallas in early 1975. New security officers appeared. Mr. WILCOTT - That is right. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Could you give an example of that? Three of the seven boxes appear in a photograph in his book. Mr. WILCOTT - Well, sir, the day after the assassination I don't think that there was any of that kind of talk. All that I knowand the attending dead endswere passed along to a researcher and author in Dallas a few years ago. Mr. CORNWELL - You had signed a secrecy oath while you were employed with the Agency? Mr. DODD - I am just a little confused, I guess, over your reaction. Mr. Shelly was Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy. I will help any wayI just want to be forewarned. the day we would list all of the advances that were made in an advance book. [1] Testimony of James B. Wilcott, RIF 180-10116-10096, pp.25-26. He was sickly looking, and, like his father, had lost weight. The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Espaol Fall 2017, Vol. My address is 2761 Atlantic Street, in Concord, and my occupation is electronic technician. [6] They held a big meeting during which they warned everyone not to discuss the assassination with outsiders. This book provides the first useful, in-depth analysis of the 120 phone calls by LBJ in the week following the assassination regarding such items as the Civil Rights Act, demands made by the military and similar political power plays. Mr. GOLDSMITH - I am sorry, I didn't hear. During this same time, I also met and spoke with relevant employees who later worked for Lee Harvey Oswalds supervisor after the assassination of President Kennedy. Mr. WILCOTT - Yes. If you have something -- Mr. WILCOTT - Along those lines they said things like, well, that Oswald couldn't have pulled the trigger, that only CIA could have set up such an elaborate project and there was nobody with the kind of knowledge or information that could have done this, and this was more in the speculative realm. Mr. GOLDSMITH - Would those summaries be destroyed as a matter of routine, to your knowledge? Mr. GOLDSMITH - How many people have you spoken to that said that Oswald was an agent of the CIA, to the best of your recollection? "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - enshrined on the lobby floor of the entrance to CIA headquarters. Yet their new location was seven miles south of the intersection of Royal Lane and Interstate 35 at 8301 Ambassador Row. Mr. WILCOTT - That was November of 1977. Mine was a happenstance meeting and short, casual friendship with a man who appeared to have fallen through the cracks. Mr. WILCOTT - My name is James B. Wilcott. She said that she had been in the personnel department since 1982, and she never knew anyone by that name. She planned to wear it that Friday evening at a social gathering. Learn more. There are photos of him getting into a police car along with Bonnie Ray Williams and Daniel Arce. Mr. WILCOTT - It is based on the principle that only those persons who are involved in a project or involved in operation -- and even things that would not seem to be at all in any way secret -- only those people should know about, it and nobody else should know about it, and that was a "need-to-know" basis Dedicated to the political vision and legacy of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X,and to the investigation of their murders. Mr. WILCOTT - I cannot remember. Mr. GOLDSMITH - How did this information concerning Oswald first come to your attention? And I will ask the question again, okay. James Wilcott worked out of the Tokyo CIA station at the time of the assassination. He asked that a copy of the letter be sent to his homenot to the business addressand after he read it, he would check into it. John F. Kennedy Subcommittee Enclosing the back area is a high, chain-link fence with coils of barbed wire on top. I think we ought to state that the record shows that Mr. Sawyer is a member of the Kennedy Subcommitte Preyer. Mr. WILCOTT - I heard references to it the day after, the assassination. Mr. SAWYER - Now, did the XXXXXXX station have any jurisdiction over the Russian operation or within the Soviet Union? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And the first time you alleged in public this allegation was in 1968? Mr. GOLDSMITH - And are you saying then that you attempted to investigate this allegation? Mr. WILCOTT - That is true. Mr. SAWYER - Who told this to the community development, people? 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